Cover Stories

The New Cold War Begins

Brahma Chellaney

Joe Biden’s Containment 2.0 seeks to employ economic tools to undermine the Russian state. The strategy could prove counterproductive and divide the global economy into two competitive blocs. It will also raise international tensions and worsen America’s strategic overstretch

What Democracies Owe Ukraine

S Prasannarajan

A federation of democracies can still save freedom—with ideals and arms

Madhuri Dixit: The Return of the Queen

Kaveree Bamzai

Madhuri Dixit set the template for the modern-day heroine in Bollywood and now she is back to challenge it in a new series that casts her as an ageing diva

Haute Hijab

Lhendup G Bhutia

When It’s a Fashion Statement

France Shows the Way

Sudeep Paul

From the 2011 veil ban law to the recent senate vote on the hijab, the French remain institutionally and instinctively committed to laïcité, the original model of secularism